[visionlist] European Retina Meeting 2009 - October 8-10, 2009 in Oldenburg, Germany

[Karin Dedek]

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to invite you to attend the European Retina Meeting 2009 
(ERM 2009, meeting home page http://www.retina-meeting.eu/), which will 
be held in Oldenburg, Germany, from October 8-10, 2009.

ERM 2009 will focus on early visual processing in the vertebrate retina, 
including anatomical, physiological and modelling approaches. The 
meeting will bring together retina specialists from Europe and overseas 
to facilitate a wider exchange of ideas and concepts and to invoke 
stimulating discussions about the complex mechanisms that underlie 
retinal processing.

ERM 2009 will include two special lectures, given by Andreas Reichenbach 
and by John E. Dowling, and five symposia on different aspects of 
retinal processing. Each symposium will consist of a key note lecture by 
an outstanding scientist and three to four talks by speakers selected 
from submitted abstracts. Symposia topics and key note speakers will be:

Retinal Circuits and Adaptation - Botond Roska
Photoreceptors and Color Vision - Gerald H. Jacobs
Development and Plasticity - Marla B. Feller
Neural Computations in the Retina - E. J. Chichilnisky
Synaptic Organization of the Retina - Ronald Gregg

Poster sessions will be held with no conflicting events on two of the 
conference days, covering various aspects of retina research, including 
the topics of the symposia. Single-track oral and poster sessions enable 
all presented work to be highly visible.

On October 7, 2009, the evening before the meeting starts, Reto Weiler 
will give a public lecture on vision and arts. This lecture will be in 
German and is entitled "Sehen und Kunst: das kunstvolle Auge".

Registration fee is 60 Euro for students and 120 Euro for all other 
applicants.
Please note that for space reasons the number of participants will be 
limited to 200, therefore early registration is recommended.

Registration is open from May 1 till June 28, 2009.
Abstract submission is open from May 1 till August 23, 2009.

The meeting is organized by the DFG-supported Research Unit "Dynamics 
and Stability of Retinal Processing".
For more information please visit our homepage 
http://www.retina-meeting.eu/ or contact us by email: 
info at retina-meeting.eu

We are looking forward to your participation, and hope to see you in 
Oldenburg!

Reto Weiler, University of Oldenburg
Maarten Kamermans, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience